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2 PUNJAB CASTES.
3 converted by the Afg'hau stock of Ghor wlio blemled with them iuLo a single
4 nation. Their original emigration was duo to tlie pressure of Jat and Scythic
5 tribes who crossed the Hindu Kusli and descended into the valley of the Kalml
6 river. Among those tribes wa.? probably the Dilazak,' wlio are now
7 classed as one of the Kodai Karlaurij and who were converted by Mahiniid
8 Ghaznavi in the opening of the 11th century. They extended their
9 sway over the Rawalpindi and Peshawar districts and the valley of the
10 Kabul as far west as Jalalabad, driving many of the original Hindkl or
11 Gandhdri inhabitants into the valleys of Swat and Buner which lie in the
12 hills to the north, and ravaging and laying waste the fertile plain country.
13 Amalgamating with the remaining Hindkis tliey lost the purity of their
14 faith; and were described as infidels by the Afghans who subsequently drove
15 them out.
16 The Kandhar colony of Gandharl was divided into two principal
17 sections, the Khakhai and Ghoria Khel, besides whom it included the descend-
18 ants of Zamand and K^nsi. I give below the principal tribes which trace
19 their descent froai Kharshabun for convenience of reference : —
20 Hold the PeshawM plaiu nortli of the Kabul
21 river, c»lleij Briiish Yiisafz*!, the Chamlah
22 Kami
23 Khakbai
24 G li 0 r i s
25 Khel.
26 Vusufzai ,,
27 Gugiani
28 t^Tarklanri
29 r Hob
30 fMandsur ... \ "^
31 \ L tb
32 I Yiietif z«i ;
33 L. proper.
34 and part of
35 Dir:
36 tbt
37 Khab'l
38 Zamaud
39 Kansi
40 ( Mubammadzai
41 (.Olbcrs
42 rShinwari
43 . Others
44 alley ou the Peabawar border,
45 the Haripur tract iu Hazara.
46 Hold Swiit, Ruiier, Piinjkora and
47 hills north of the Yisuizai plain.
48 ( Hold Doaba ; the plains in the »ugle between
49 "■ j^ the Kabnl and Swat rivers
50 ... Hold Bajaur tract west of Swat.
51 Plains Mob- f Hold plain* of Peshiwar on right bank of Bars
52 inand. (. river.
53 Bar Mob- ( Hold niouulains north of Kabul river and west
54 mand. i of the Swal-Kabul Doib.
55 f Hold Peshawar plain on right bank cf Kabul
56 ...3 river to a little below the junction of the
57 C Kara river.
58 ... Hold the Peshawar plains between tlie DAiidzai
59 and the Khaibar.
60 Hold Hashtnaghar, tlie plains east of Swat
61 river in Peshawar.
62 Scattered.
63 Hold part of Khaibar inounta'ns on the north-
64 ern slopes of the Safed Kob,
65 Scattered.
66 About the middle of the 13th century they were settled aljout the head-
67 -waters of the Tarnak and Arghasau rivers, while the Tarin Afghans held, as
68 they still hold, the lower valleys of those streams. As they increased in
69 numbers the weaker yielded to pressure, and the Khakhai Khel, accompanied
70 by their first cousins the Muhammadzai descendants of Zamand, and by their
71 Karlanri neighbours the Utman Khel of the Gomal valley,* left their homes
72 and migrated to Kabul. Thence they were expelled during the latter half of
73 the 15th century by Uiugh Beg, a limal descendant of Taimur and Babar's
74 uncle, and passed eastwards into Ningrahar on the uorihern slopes of the
75 Safed Koh, and into the Jalalabad valley. Here the Gugiani settled in
76 eastern and the Muhammadzai in western Ningrahar, the Tarklanri occupied
77 'Dr. Bellew seems doubtful whether the Dilazak were of Jat or of Rajput extiaction. He
78 says the name is of Buddhist origin.
79 'Another story makes the Utman Khel desceuJauta of one Ut»ian, a follower of Mabuiiid
80 Ghaznavi, who settled circa 1,000 A. D. in the country which they now hold .